DCD Reporter
Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, in collaboration with Chennai Jesuit Province Dalit and Spirituality–Dialogue, organized a webinar on “Rejecting Casteism in the Church” on January 24.
The same webinar was held in Tamil last week.
Speaking on the topic, Fr....
By DCD Reporter
Salesian Father Arul Valan has been working for the rights of the most marginalized Thurumbar people, a Dalit community in Tamil Nadu. Through Thurumbar Liberation Movement (TLM), an NGO that he founded, Father Valan’s rallying points have been for their dignity, respect and eradication of discrimination for last two decades.
By Jeyaraj Veluswamy
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
January 26, 2021 marks our 71st Republic Day. More than anything else, it is primarily a day to celebrate ourselves as one popoli or one nation, to celebrate our Constitution as the...
By Pradeep Kumar Nayak
“Those who professed a religion of non-Indian origin or coming to India, settled down there, became distinctively Indian in course of a few generations, such as Christians, Jews, Parsees, and Muslims. Indian converts to some of these religions never ceased to be Indians on account of a change of their...
By DCD Reporter
Kumbakonam: The Dalit Christians need to be empowered socially, politically and economically. They have to become entrepreneurs and to be treated equally, says Lawrance, president of Romero Entrepreneurs and Drivers Welfare Association.This association was registered a few months ago by Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) Commission, Kumbakonam Diocese, Tamil...
By Valson Thampu
Soren Kierkegaard was a formative influence on me. I remember his anguished cry, ‘In the whole of Christendom, there isn’t a single Christian!’ I heard the same anguish, in due course, in Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche, though in a different tone. The world has seen only one Christian, Nietzsche, wrote....
By Jaya Lakshmi and Arvind A S
Trigger warning: Mentions of rape, caste-based discrimination
The recent rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman who was forcibly cremated by the police in Uttar Pradesh, an incident which was soon followed by another rape and murder of a 22-year old Dalit woman in Balrampur,...
By Priyanka Bhalshankar
Jaya (name changed) 24, a Dalit woman from Mumbai, is studying Masters in Social Work at Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS). She is a first-generation learner in a family with three generations working as safai karamcharis. Jaya has supported her education on her own by doing part-time jobs since the age...
By Anurag Bhaskar
India needs to move beyond tokenism of having one Dalit chief justice or two Dalit presidents, and ensure adequate representation to its Dalit and Adivasi citizens in all fields
India’s “tryst with destiny”, which Jawaharlal Nehru announced on the midnight of Independence, was supposed to bring dignity for...
By Priya Ramani
Sometimes, you just have to act casual and wait politely to make history. In a country that would soon okay a second term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi—heralding an age where Indianness would be sieved by religion and personal rights and freedoms would be curbed dramatically—Sneha Parthibaraja became the first Indian...
